Penn State at Maryland

Saturday, October 23, 1943

Penn State beat Maryland 45–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Penn State led the series 5–⁠0.

AwayPenn State5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1943
45
HomeMaryland4–⁠5 in 1943
0

FinalHigh 67°F, low 53°FAttendance 5,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: 1erps' Outlook Bright In ) Of 4 Road TiIts

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 27, 1943, page 16

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    1erps’ Outlook Bright In ) Of 4 Road TiIts Maryland’s football team, which strictly will be road outfit for its remaining four games, should have an even chance In three OF the contests. These three are against Green vile. S. c.. Air Base Saturday; Viz ginia at Charlottesville November 6 and v. M. I. at Roanoke Thanks giving Day. However, the Old Liners do not figure to be in the same class as the powerful Balm bridge Naval Training Station squad at Port Deposit on November 13. N. C. State beat the Flyers last Saturday, IS; Virginia was handed like beating by the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School and v. M. I. took a 2l-0 lacing from Wake Forest, team Maryland conquered earlier in the season, 13–⁠7 The MUCH improved Deacons, though got breaks on all three of their touchdowns. The Old Liners. forgetting about their 45–⁠0 tromcing by the star packed Penn State team, now are working with the idea of winning the three games in their class and finishing on the right side of the ledger. They have won two of three thus far and suffered their only bad defeat at the hands OF the Nittany Lions.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Penn State 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Penn State leads 44–⁠3–⁠1 in 48 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Penn State 44, Maryland 7
2023Penn State 51, Maryland 15
2022Penn State 30, Maryland 0
2021Penn State 31, Maryland 14
2020Maryland 35, Penn State 19
2019Penn State 59, Maryland 0

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